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Javier Calvo

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born

May 07, 1973 in Barcelona, Spain

website

http://www.elblogdejaviercalvo.blogspot.com/

genre

Literature & Fiction, Short Stories

influences

David Foster Wallace, Junot Díaz, Roberto Bolaño, Charles Dickens, Nar ...more

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Also known as Javier Calvo Perales. Javier Calvo graduated in journalism at the Autonomous University of Barcelona and studied comparative literature at Pompeu Fabra University. His first short-story compilation, Risas enlatadas (Canned Laughs, 2001), shows stylistic elements that differ extremely from those of contemporary Spanish narrative: sampling or movie snippets, manipulated quotes of other texts, compressed plots from other novels and an "open" conception of narration, taken from Free Cinema and the montage techniques of filmmakers such as Jean Eustache or John Cassavetes. Other influences, recognizable in this book are the English novel and the audiovisual world of cinema and television, with many of his short stories using the wor...more

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ESOS ESCRITORES CHIFLADOS CON SUS LOCOS CACHARROS

No puedo evitarlo: me fascinan los libros colectivos. Me fascina eso que tienen de criaturas de Frankenstein literarias, de reuniones de estilos y poéticas irreconciliables, aberraciones estéticas de donde a menudo emergen atmósferas confusas y mareantes. El arte de la cacofonía. Y por supuesto, en todos hay algo de combate de gladiadores, una búsqueda inevitable por parte del lector de los re... read more »

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Books by Javier Calvo

Average rating: 3.61 · 210 ratings · 52 reviews · 25 distinct works

	Wonderful World: A Novel 3.28 avg rating — 68 ratings — published 2007 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Corona de Flores 3.74 avg rating — 19 ratings — published 2010 — 2 editions	My rating:
	El jardín colgante 3.67 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2012	My rating:
	Suomenlinna 3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings	My rating:
	El Dios Reflectante 3.50 avg rating — 8 ratings — published 2003	My rating:
	Los Rios Perdidos De Londres / The Lost Rivers of Londres 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	Risas enlatadas 4.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	I delitti della speranza 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2011	My rating:
	Invasores de Marte 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	Nana by Chuck Palahniuk, Javier Calvo (Translator) 3.66 avg rating — 32,452 ratings — published 2002 — 36 editions	My rating: